| Show THROUGH SIMPLON TUNNEL f he e Pint Journey Made Milde by ty a Notepaper Newspaper J I T S 30 in the morning c ot of AT day duy ItO lan Jan 20 30 1900 mot I mi In over day I found hl with Miili cold collI on the tho platform of ot the now station at nt lo lu lobe lube be bo whirled into ludo July Italy thrown through Iho thu mighty might Simplon tunnel says tuy the tho fall lall tall Gazette The tops topi of ot tine Uio snowy Pinnacles piercing the tits blu blue were 1110 touched with opal ami and pink Hie virgin silent heights seemed to lio h blushing at ill man a e A little over n 11 hun hundred dred years earll UBO alto up there shore In yond yonder T pass Napoleon ia l leen o and a nIl his hla army were Itla en on engaged gaped In hr a II pitched onu uC of the tho greatest bottles buttles that the tho th Cor ever iver fought Hh tho thin suma same mountain lII tur tells lell lib us that Hut Ih t Napoleon Na Nu Napoleon pol won at the cost coet of at of ut Ms hit men Napoleons weapons were perseverance and anti pluck plank but bul he lie was van In a rl hurry hlll und and overlooked the thi perforator deadliest tl enemy ln of tho to Alps Alpa Brun dealt denu tho thu Napoleon engineer tl with this II has laid lal l the tho mighty mountain low lots forever ut at the foot toot of ot tin the world Messieurs en vulture volture pour paul Iselle holIe shouts the thu porter port r In ht the familiar roll rail tty iny volio and und scorns seems rather rattler d when the tho announcement 1 Is II received with a II burst of at laughter cheer cher cheering Ing and the tho boomIng boorning of cannon we start It Is II S 4 45 a n m Exactly l 11 minutes later we V e arrive nt at the thu mouth of ot tile tie tunnel tumid 1 and enter the tho colossal bore hore tits the eighth wonder of thin tho world The train U Is traveling tra at nl the rule rate of forty Carl kilometers on nil hour rite Tho coaches coacheR have hlo not h ui o and It IS 19 cold colt I open the window au a warmer air nil in en inters hers the tho It becomes warmer und and warmer wanner Ila rill I tte V have reach reached r cd ed the center of oC the tunnel rho Tho her ther fI degrees centi centigrade grade grads the fools cools A t hl lt and antl ten rush ru h Into sunshine and tray Italy It Ill luff is i 33 a It m in 37 AlII we ve left th the journey IH Is over uv r AH twee 11 wo descend on to tn the permanent way thO lie cannons boom again and the time wailing crowd Rive give us OK n u I warm welcome but now nol the thu th rif rf the tho Switzer has given to tho time snore mor melodious of ot the Ital Italian ian lall I an In III minutes tea have a u aI I the tho distance that It takes taken 1 I the ill hours gt ncr and four t ten n 1 hours H to cover COer over the pitH paw in slue line weather mid amid favorable conditions conditional An is 11 the he train rein does doe not start on en tho rho return journey jour until 3 In the afternoon wu WJ have plenty of oC time lima to look Two Tivo clouds cloud of vapor from Crum tho the of Iho ho larger and smaller tun lUll nets nelu nt It oneo arrest ones attention They hn ore aro caused 1 by h the Iho heated all air forced Co reed out of ot the tunnel by IW powerful c electric fans fixed near tho rho northern portal tortal coming In contact with the cold outride the th In iii tempera temperature ra ture hire belag nearly narb 35 degrees at al the lh of at the oP shout About L bl II e which w hl r t Is la an at Insignificant little littletown town town are fire hundred of oC deserted ilc huvel and Ind wooden lon shanties which were wert for formerly formerly merly Inhabited by br Italian workmen workman At the tho toot foot of or the town lUllS lions the River through picturesque meadow and LInd Woods tI nod typical Italian villages village At iselle are arc stationed a I couple of at of 01 Italian sappers whole who It I Is I J jred t d destroy tho the the Brent great Simplot tunnel ut ur A i moments moment notice With kith this Ihl end In view the th sappers have hll been bP n engaged fur for the past Nut month lit in u a tunnel on their own account about yards above the ino have hae nearly fin shed their theil worst work which witch will enable them by Iy II a II button to wreck y nr of or toll and anil nn skill In a second laid and 11 r 4 no flOi to tn th thin tho winds wind windOn windson On the stroke of or 3 we took leave I a of at our friends and reentered lh the tunnel the tho locomotive puffing at atI I tin this had bask Noar Mr the center th the train stopped fd unit and we WI descended In ht order to examine the vault nult Every Kury r stone stono In this thU mays lilacs I of or masonry mn has boon been t test eti f il l by 1 exports cX lJ for being used n NI and another Inspection tn lakes place shortly We tle alk l on nn n a little further farther by 1 tho rho brilliant lump lamps of ot the engine until we cane came upon th the frontier which Is marked by b a simple pimple brass plate let Into Int the stone Mone tOI t Italia Some Horns i twenty yards yard farther tarther we wo found two awn awnI lW lWI I huge hiiRO solid Iron doors weighing many 1 j tons tOilS with their hinges well ivell greased l lI I I ready to be b shut hut ut lit nn an moment by byi b bI i I means of oC constructed mn nin I chine in the funs face of oC Italy It wait wai W I V winn WartH at tit this thU spot aunt and anda 1 I a corpulent member ember In of oC tho party went up considerably In our estimation when JI ii ted In an adjournment to our seats end And here wo wa Bro are again An Au t t until April next when wh n nI 1 I hele h le to lo revisit you It Il wile tose wa n a fair an plucky your ronI kind and my ml Inkin kind kin between man matt fwd and mountain you have lost r I JJ |
